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1997 Jazz Album Releases
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Sep 30
Portishead
Portishead
82
critic score
(11)
84
user score
(1,137)
Feb 11
Erykah Badu
Baduizm
84
critic score
(8)
86
user score
(786)
Sep 16
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
88
critic score
(3)
85
user score
(505)
May 19
Amon Tobin
Bricolage
90
critic score
(2)
83
user score
(280)
1997
Anthony Braxton
Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993
90
critic score
(1)
85
user score
(52)
Apr 22
Marvin Gaye
Vulnerable
59
critic score
(3)
65
user score
(26)
Nov 18
Erykah Badu
Live
68
critic score
(3)
86
user score
(20)
1997
高中正義 [Masayoshi Takanaka]
The White Goblin
86
user score
(19)
Sep 16
Rubén González
Introducing...Rubén González
74
critic score
(2)
72
user score
(16)
Sep 23
John Coltrane
The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings
100
critic score
(1)
86
user score
(15)
Nov 4
Isotope 217
The Unstable Molecule
80
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(11)
Sep 16
Afro-Cuban All Stars
A toda Cuba le gusta
81
user score
(9)
Sep 1
Tomasz Stanko Septet
Litania: Music of Krzysztof Komeda
85
user score
(7)
Nov 11
Pink Martini
Sympathique
75
user score
(7)
Feb 11
Kenny Wheeler / Lee Konitz / Dave Holland / Bill Frisell
Angel Song
40
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(6)
Jan 28
Pat Boone
In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy
33
critic score
(2)
31
user score
(6)
May
Parker, Guy, Lytton & Marilyn Crispell
Natives and Aliens
80
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(6)
1997
Cecil Taylor
Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come
90
critic score
(1)
89
user score
(5)
1997
Eva Taylor
Eva Taylor with Clarence Williams
69
user score
(3)
1997
Jerry Goldsmith
L. A. Confidential
80
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(3)
Jan 27
George Michael
Older / I Can't Make You Love Me
91
user score
(3)
Sep 8
George Michael
You Have Been Loved
89
user score
(3)
1997
Arcana
Arc of the Testimony
64
user score
(3)
Oct 7
Pat Metheny Group
Imaginary Day
80
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(3)
May 20
John Zorn
New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands
90
critic score
(1)
67
user score
(2)
1997
The Ivo Perelman Quartet
Sound Hierarchy
85
user score
(1)
Jun 24
Various Artists
The Rough Guide to Classic Jazz
80
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(1)
1997
Claire Martin
Make This City Ours
80
critic score
(1)
1997
Martirio
Coplas de madrugá
Jun
Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadić
Krushevo
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1997
Kenny Wheeler
All the More
80
critic score
(1)
Apr 8
Al Foster
Brandyn
80
critic score
(1)
Jan 1
J. J. Johnson & Kai Winding
The Great Kai and J. J.
90
critic score
(1)
1997
Guy-Gustafsson-Strid Trio With Marilyn Crispell
Gryffgryffgryffs
80
critic score
(1)
1997
Síntesis
Orishas
Oct 14
Various Artists
A Life Less Ordinary
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